After a review of the tenure evaluations and recommendations of the appropriate committees and administrators … I am pleased to inform you that your service to the University merits the award of tenure. I am also pleased to inform you that you have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, effective August 21, 2008.

Your future students, your philosophy colleagues worldwide and your blog readers are all fortunate that your University has seen fit to endorse your hard efforts over the past years of professordom in this fashion. Congratulations!

We never doubted, but as per Duke’s motto trust, but verify. Just as I predicted, you heard 2 days after we left the jurisdiction. Sorry we’re not there to celebrate with you, but we will definitely celebrate for you.

Congrats on such a momentous accomplishment. Of course we all knew your service merited the award of tenure; the issue was whether or not you’d receive it. Glad to see an expected result. Nice as well to see the litany of accolades here, which is also–though not quite as–impressive.

Major congratulations! Welcome to the world of academic freedom where you can not only pursue novel, controversial lines of research, but you can call your chair a self-absorbed, know nothing jerk and get away with it.

Hey, hey! Great news, and congrats!
As Archie Bunker would say, “Whoop dee doo, whoop dee doo!”
(Thought I’d give you an old school celebratory cheer since everyone else these days is using Homer Simpson’s “Whoo-hoo!”)